This week the children of Year 6 have been preparing for this morning's maths challenge. Fixing together nets of various 3D shapes, the children have been compiling shapes to contribute to today's finale. Their task was to build the tallest free-standing structure from their shapes. Tetrahedrons, cubes, cuboids, pentagonal and hexagonal based pyramids were attached to each other in various directions using only 5cm of masking tape per two nets. The time limit was 30 minutes for teams of 4 children to exercise their reciprocity and resourcefulness skills. Quickly, the children figured out that they had left their strategy planning until the last minute:
"Maybe we should have used less triangular shapes" thought Caitlin.
"It was really hard to keep the shapes together once we got past a certain height," said Vinnie.
"I chose to use boxes as they stacked easier and were sturdy" quoted Kynan.
The winning team's tower measured a staggering 70cm and used a combination of cubes and tetrahedrons. A fantastic effort from all children.
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